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美國 Garchen Institute 噶千佛學會 2010 年暑期活動 - 直貢徹贊法王蒞臨弘法與 噶千仁波切紀錄片電影首映會
Deity Yoga consists of two parts, the creation phase and the completion phase. The creation phase, or the visualization of the deity, can first of all be a practice of shamata (calm abiding), as one trains in the single-pointed meditation on the deity. This purifies our habitual identification with the body, the grasping to the body as existing substantially. When we practice Deity Yoga we grow familiar with who we really are. We come to understand that our mind actually has the nature of the deity—that the deity has arisen from the mind. Furthermore, all phenomena have arisen from this mind and are therefore divine by nature. Both samsara and nirvana have arisen from the mind and do not exist beyond it. In order to realize this, we engage in Deity Yoga. The creation phase purifies our grasping at the body and the belief in its reality. It purifies the existence of birth, as the creation of the deity directly relates to the way in which a being is born. The comp letion phase is also called the dissolution stage, as the entire visualization dissolves. This relates directly to the death process in which the elements and thoughts dissolve one by one until one reaches the empty dharmakaya. Death and the completion stage are quite similar. The practice of the completion phase purifies the existence of death.
7/29 - 7/31 直貢徹贊法王給予本尊法修持準備教授, 勝樂輪五尊大灌頂
8/1 噶千仁波切傳記紀錄片首映會
8/3 - 8/8 勝樂輪金剛竹千 (大成就法) - 噶千仁波切主法
8/10 - 8/15 噶拉多傑《椎擊三要》教授 - 噶千仁波切講述
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Hello Everyone,
Here, at last, is our exciting news about the Summer Teachings!
We are deeply honored to announce that from July 29-31 His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, the head of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, will give preparatory teachings on Deity Yoga Practice followed by the Five-Deities Cakrasamvara Great Empowerment as part of his Gyalwa Drikungpa USA Dharma Tour 2010. The Cakrasamvara empowerment is very rarely given, and to receive it from His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche is precious beyond measure.
Following His Holiness’s Deity Yoga teachings and the Cakrasamvara Great Empowerment, His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche and Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche will lead our annual Cakrasamvara Drubchen from August 3-8. Participating in the drubchen greatly increases the benefit of the empowerment.
After the drubchen, from August 10-15 His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche will give treasured Dzogchen teachings on Garab Dorje’s Three Statements that Strike the Vital Points, pointing out the nature of mind.
His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche encourages everyone not to miss this very rare opportunity to receive precious teachings and the Five-Deities Cakrasamvara Great Empowerment from His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and hopes that many will be able to attend.
And there is more exciting news! The first-ever benefit screening of the film “For the Benefit of All Beings: The Extraordinary Life of Kyabje Garchen Rinpoche” will be held on August 1st in Prescott, Arizona. At this first-ever screening of the film, we will be blessed by the presence of both His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, and both will speak at the screening. This very moving film will touch the hearts of all who see it for countless years to come.
To read about the extraordinary life and accomplishments of His Holiness Drikung Kyagbon Chetsang Rinpoche, please see: http://drikung.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=47
The complete schedule for the Summer Teachings, along with descriptions for each event and more information about the film, is given below.
Please note that the only lodging that will be available at the Institute during the Summer Teachings is indoor camping and outdoor camping. To provide assistance in finding other local lodging, a list of offsite options is given in the “Registering for Events” section below.
Be sure to remember that the deadline for registering for the Summer Teachings is July 22. If you wish to purchase meals, your 50% nonrefundable deposit must be received by this date.
We look forward to rejoicing with you this summer!
SUMMER TEACHINGS: July 29 – August 15
All teachings and the Cakrasamvara Empowerment will begin at 9:00 am and conclude at 5:00 pm daily. The Cakrasamvara Drubchen will begin at 9:00 am on August 3 and continue around the clock until 5:00 pm on August 8.
There will be Lama Chopa practice each morning from 7:00-8:00 am and White Tara practice each evening from 6:30-7:30 pm, except during the drubchen, on break days, and on the day of the screening of the film.
SCHEDULE
July 26: His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche arrives as The Garchen Institute
July 29: Preliminary Teachings on Deity Yoga Practice, with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche
July 30: Five-Deities Cakrasamvara Great Empowerment: Preparatory Empowerment, with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche
July 31: Five-Deities Cakrasamvara Great Empowerment: Actual Empowerment, with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche
Note: To receive the empowerment, you must attend all three days, July 29-31. It is acceptable to attend just the first day, July 29, if you do not wish to receive the empowerment.
August 1: The first-ever benefit screening of “For the Benefit of All Beings: The Extraordinary Life of Kyabje Garchen Rinpoche” in Prescott (only breakfast will be served at the Institute on this day)
August 2: Break day (no teachings and no meal service); His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche departs
August 3-8: Cakrasamvara Drubchen, with His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, Lama Gape, Lama Abao, and Lama Bunima (please note that you must have received a Cakrasamvara Empowerment in order to participate in the drubchen)
August 9: Break day (no teachings and no meal service)
August 10-15: Dzogchen Teachings: Garab Dorje’s Three Statements that Strike the Vital Points, with His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
Note: The preregistration deadline for all events is July 22
July 29: Preliminary Teachings on Deity Yoga Practice, with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche
Deity Yoga consists of two parts, the creation phase and the completion phase. The creation phase, or the visualization of the deity, can first of all be a practice of shamata (calm abiding), as one trains in the single-pointed meditation on the deity. This purifies our habitual identification with the body, the grasping to the body as existing substantially. When we practice Deity Yoga we grow familiar with who we really are. We come to understand that our mind actually has the nature of the deity—that the deity has arisen from the mind. Furthermore, all phenomena have arisen from this mind and are therefore divine by nature. Both samsara and nirvana have arisen from the mind and do not exist beyond it. In order to realize this, we engage in Deity Yoga. The creation phase purifies our grasping at the body and the belief in its reality. It purifies the existence of birth, as the creation of the deity directly relates to the way in which a being is born. The comp letion phase is also called the dissolution stage, as the entire visualization dissolves. This relates directly to the death process in which the elements and thoughts dissolve one by one until one reaches the empty dharmakaya. Death and the completion stage are quite similar. The practice of the completion phase purifies the existence of death.
July 30: Five-Deities Cakrasamvara Great Empowerment: Preparatory Empowerment, with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche
July 31: Five-Deities Cakrasamvara Great Empowerment: Actual Empowerment, with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche
Note: To receive the empowerment, you must attend all three days, July 29-31. It is acceptable to attend just the first day, July 29, if you do not wish to receive the empowerment.
Cakrasamvara is the principal yidam (meditation deity) of all the Kagyu lineages. In the old tantras that were brought from India it is said that this deity is the utmost essence of all the deities and all the tantras. The reason we do this practice is to purify the habitual tendencies of samsara and to purify all obscurations. We are also purifying the imprints of the birth process. When we engage in the creation stage practice of Cakrasamvara, the practice that utilizes bliss as the method, we come to an understanding of the wisdom of bliss and emptiness. This is called the illustrative wisdom, depending on which we realize the actual nature of wisdom, which is Mahamudra
Cakrasamvara emanated from the Buddha Vajradhara and was the treasured yidam (meditation deity) of Lord Jigten Sumgon, the founder of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, and is considered to be the chief yidam within the Drikung Kagyu lineage. The general lineage derives from Vajradhara down to Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa, Gampopa, and Phagmo Drupa, and the tradition of practicing Cakrasamvara was established by Ga Lotsawa, a contemporary of Phagmo Drupa.
Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche provided the following information about His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and Cakrasamvara: “His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche has a very strong connection to Cakrasamvara, with the lineage going back to Lord Jigten Sumgon, Phagmo Drupa, and so forth, as indicated above. Cakrasamvara was the primary yidam deity for them all. Throughout 40 royal successions up until the present Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, all masters and lineage holders of the Drikung Kagyu lineage have practiced Cakrasamvara as their main deity. In addition, most of the eighty great Indian mahasiddas and all past Kagyu masters have attained the highest accomplishment through depending on Cakrasamvara. His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinopche has accomplished the traditional Cakrasamvara retreat and considers him to be his primary deity.
“For practitioners of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, it is most important and very precious to have the good fortune to receive the empowerment of Cakramsavara from His Holiness. The lineage of this practice has been sustained uninterruptedly, utterly pure and without samaya breakage, and thus its blessings have not vanished. Whoever is able to receive the Cakrasamvara empowerment from His Holiness will receive the blessings of this immaculate and powerful lineage and should consider themselves extraordinarily fortunate. Along with His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, I am very happy to be able to welcome His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rincpohe to The Garchen Institute and encourage you not to miss this precious opportunity to make this very rare connection.”
August 1: Screening of “For the Benefit of All Beings: The Extraordinary Life of Kyabje Garchen Rinpoche” in Prescott
Note: There will be no teachings on this day, and breakfast will be the only meal served at the Institute.
His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche
will both be in attendance at the
FIRST-EVER
BENEFIT SCREENING
of the film we have all been waiting for. . .
FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL BEINGS
The Extraordinary Life of Kyabje Garchen Rinpoche
Sunday, August 1st
Prescott, Arizona
- There’s no place you’d rather be!
- Once in a lifetime opportunity to view the premiere with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche. Both lamas will speak at the screening.
- Limited seating
SIGN UP TODAY TO FIND OUT HOW TO OBTAIN YOUR TICKET!!!
*If you sign up by April 11th on the Updates page at www.ForTheBenefitOfAllBeings.com, you will be the first to be notified when tickets become available.
August 2: Break day (no teachings and no meal service); His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche departs
August 3-8: Cakrasamvara Drubchen, with His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, Lama Gape, Lama Abao, and Lama Bunima
Note: You must have received a Cakrasamvara empowerment in order to participate in the drubchen.
Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has asked that together we engage in this profound drubchen annually at The Garchen Institute. He has said that engaging the drubchen greatly enhances the power of the empowerment. “Drubchen” literally means “great accomplishment” in Tibetan and is one of the most elaborate forms of Vajrayana Buddhist practice. A drubchen is a rare opportunity to concentrate body, speech, and mind in spiritual application, resulting in realization and merit to sustain spiritual development in this and future lives. Participating in a drubchen is said to generate merit and potential realization equal to one year of retreat or seven years of practice. Dedicating the practice to all sentient beings extends this benefit and increases world peace and prosperity.
August 9: Break day (no teachings and no meal service)
August 10-15: Dzogchen Teachings: Garab Dorje’s Three Statements that Strike the Vital Points, with His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche
The Three Statements that Strike the Vital Points are the last pith instructions given by the great master Garab Dorje. Garab Dorje was the first Dzogchen master, and he received transmission through direct visionary contact with the Samboghakaya. The Dzogchen teachings were taught for the first time in this world by Garab Dorje, who manifested in Nirmanakaya form as a human being in the third century B.C.E. in the country of Ogyen, situated to the northwest of India. He spent his life there teaching both human beings and the dakinis. His final teaching before he attained the Rainbow Body of Light was to summarize the teachings into Three Principles, sometimes known as "The Three Last Statements of Garab Dorje." He left behind this testament for all Dzogchen practitioners of the future. The Three Statements of Garab Do rje are: "Introduce to one’s own real nature directly," referring to the transmission by the master, who in various ways introduces and brings the disciple to understand the condition of "what is," the individual's primordial state. This is the Base. "Do not remain in doubt" means that one must have precise knowledge of this state, finding the state of the presence of contemplation, which is one and the same in all the thousands of possible experiences. This is the Path. "Continue with confidence in the profound knowledge of self-liberation" is the Fruit.
Rinpoche will give precious teachings based on the great master Patrul Rinpoche’s brilliant commentary, “The Special Teachings of the Wise and Glorious King,” on these final pith instructions of Garab Dorje.
REGISTERING FOR EVENTS
You are welcome to participate in all or part of the Summer Teachings as your schedule permits, with the following exceptions: In order to receive the Cakrasamvara Empowerment, you must attend all three days with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, July 29-31. It is acceptable to attend just the teachings on July 29 if you do not wish to receive the empowerment. In order to participate in the Cakrasamvara Drubchen, August 3-8, you must have received a Cakrasamvara Empowerment (you may attend as many days of the drubchen as your schedule permits).
Preregistration is required for all events. To preregister, please remit by July 22 your nonrefundable deposit of one day’s tuition (tuition is $30/day) and 50% of the cost of meals you wish to purchase ($4 for breakfast, $8 for lunch, $8 for dinner). Please note that your meal deposit must be received by the deadline in order to guarantee availability. The only onsite lodging that will be available for this event is indoor camping (you bring your own sleeping bag and mat and sleep in the temple or stupa, and the cost is $15/night) and outdoor camping (you bring your own tent, etc., and the cost is $8/night). Please see below for other lodging options.
To preregister or inquire about work-study, please email the Institute at questions@garchen.net or call 928-925-1237. For more information, please visit our website at www.garchen.net.
Local Offsite Lodging:
ChinoValley
Sangha Member Thom Lane’s nearby house and studio
15 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 520-490-9993
Days Inn Motel (new motel in ChinoValley with nice rooms and a heated indoor pool)
25 minutes from the Institute; fills during summer months—reserve space early
Telephone: 928-636-0311
Website: http://daysinn.com (search on “Chino Valley, Arizona”)
PrimroseInnMotel & RVPark (simple motel rooms and one exceptionally nice guest house)
20 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 928-636-2894
Website: http://primroseinnandrv.com/
Teapot Inn Bed & Breakfast (very nice B&B with an extra friendly owner, who may be willing to drive you to/from the center for a daily fee)
25 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 928-636-7727
Website: http://www.teapotinn.com/
Little Thumb Butte Bed & Breakfast (mid range; we have not visited this B&B, so do not know its condition)
40 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 928-636-4413
Website: http://www.littlethumb.net
Prescott
Apache Lodge Motel (low end)
55 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 928-445-1422
Antelope Hills Inn (lower mid range)
40 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 928-778-6000
Website: http://www.antelopehillsinn.com/
Best Western Prescottonian (mid range)
55 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 928-445-3096
Marriott Springhill Suites (high end; very nice accommodations)
55 minutes from the Institute
Telephone: 928-776-0998
May all be auspicious!
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